Core PPI up 9.6% annualized (0.8% MoM) in May

Post by timacles » Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 3:36 PM UTC

khriss wrote: post #57

timacles wrote: post #35

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The politics in this country have been intentionally broken going back to Clinton and Obama. It is impossible to make meaningful change anymore. Add in the propaganda convincing 2/5th of the country to consistently vote against their own interests and fundamentally misunderstand core issues, and it is difficult to see what can be done in the next 10 years. The USA has had a hostile takeover by oligarchs. We are a cou…

> The politics in this country have been intentionally broken going back to Clinton and Obama. Ahh yes, the presidents from the other party, including the one currently in office, who runs arguably the most brazenly corrupt administrations in US history, having tripled his family's net worth in a single year is of course entirely blame free /s.

Post by UncleMeat » Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 3:38 PM UTC

khriss wrote: post #50

What makes this appalling is that the current situation is entirely the result of deliberate choice by the president. I know there will be a lot of commenters rushing in to breathlessly claim 'Inflation was worse under Biden!'. However, there is a difference between inflation being the result of a literal 'once a 100 year' global pandemic and Trump deciding to attack Iran because he needed to remove attention from hi…

Post by nickff » Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 3:41 PM UTC

pixelatedindex wrote: post #98

nickff wrote: post #87

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The Lewinsky Affair got traction because Clinton used his position of power (literally in the Oval Office) to take advantage of a young subordinate, in a time when ‘sexual harassment’ was becoming a hot topic. Then lying about the affair made it much worse (as cover-ups often do). It was definitely used against Clinton by his opponents, but the way he abused his position, then perjured himself was truly shameful.

Ironic because Trump said (and did) far worse things in 2016 and didn’t affect him one bit

Post by UncleMeat » Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 3:44 PM UTC

nickff wrote: post #87

pstuart wrote: post #60

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It's an interesting point. With Clinton, l'affaire de bj was a willful attempt to take the president's private life public as a means of congressional focus. It should be noted that until then, this was effectively off limits . It was an open secret in DC that his predecessor, Bush the 1st, kept a mistress for years and that was never discussed publicly. In the case of Obama, the GOP noted that their top priority was…

The Lewinsky Affair got traction because Clinton used his position of power (literally in the Oval Office) to take advantage of a young subordinate, in a time when ‘sexual harassment’ was becoming a hot topic. Then lying about the affair made it much worse (as cover-ups often do). It was definitely used against Clinton by his opponents, but the way he abused his position, then perjured himself was truly shameful.

Post by thijson » Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 4:02 PM UTC

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #16

triceratops wrote: post #8

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> Voting doesn't work Disparaging democracy doesn't work. Saying shit like this is worse than not voting. EDIT: Downvoted for defending democracy. I do love democracy :-D

> Disparaging democracy The ancient Athenians knew that elections favored the rich. That’s why they incorporated selection by lot into their system. Our modern understanding of democracy has fetishized elections to the point that some voters might see hundreds of them in a year, including for positions that shouldn’t ever be elected ( e.g. judges), while still having little to no actual civic power.